Founder's Desk, volume 6

Before You Sign

The agreements a founder signs, clause by clause: term sheets, shareholder agreements, ESOPs, employment, vendors, customers and NDAs.

What it does for you

Read any of the fourteen agreements a founder routinely signs, find the six clauses that matter in each, and know what to push back on and how.

Inside

1. Part 1Reading agreements
2. Part 2Equity documents
3. Part 3People
4. Part 4Customers and vendors
5. Part 5Money and property

At the back: Checklists by agreement; four worked models (indemnity cap exposure, liquidated damages test, non-compete map, stamp-duty calculator); the cost of one wrong clause; statute index; glossary; a stamp and registration table by document; a thirty-day contract audit; three templates.

Written for

Founders and early leadership who sign term sheets, shareholders' agreements, ESOP schemes, employment and consultant contracts, customer and vendor paper, loans, leases and NDAs.

Also in Founder's Desk, all seven (₹3,499) and Every EzComply handbook (₹11,999).